From the beginning of recorded history and for thousands upon thousands of years, cultures upon the entire World believed that the Earth was flat, their various cosmologies and cosmogonies differed in slight ways but their overall geographies and astronomies were incredibly consistent and virtually identical. The Earth was a stationary plane, void of any curvature, flat across its entire expense, except of course for hills, mountains, and valleys.

The North Pole was the magnetic monopole center point of the flat Earth, with Polaris, the North Pole star, situated directly above. Polaris was the only motionless star in the heavens with all the other constellations revolving perfect circles over the Earth every night. The stars were divided into